Commit a3a87844 authored Dec 29, 2014 by Sasha Levin Committed by David Howells Jan 05, 2015

KEYS: close race between key lookup and freeing



When a key is being garbage collected, it's key->user would get put before
the ->destroy() callback is called, where the key is removed from it's
respective tracking structures.

This leaves a key hanging in a semi-invalid state which leaves a window open
for a different task to try an access key->user. An example is
find_keyring_by_name() which would dereference key->user for a key that is
in the process of being garbage collected (where key->user was freed but
->destroy() wasn't called yet - so it's still present in the linked list).

This would cause either a panic, or corrupt memory.

Fixes CVE-2014-9529.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

parent 693a30b8

security/keys/gc.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -148,12 +148,12 @@ static noinline void key_gc_unused_keys(struct list_head *keys)
		if (test_bit(KEY_FLAG_INSTANTIATED, &key->flags))
		atomic_dec(&key->user->nikeys);

		key_user_put(key->user);

		/* now throw away the key memory */
		if (key->type->destroy)
		key->type->destroy(key);

		key_user_put(key->user);

		kfree(key->description);

		#ifdef KEY_DEBUGGING

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